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The Goddess Durga Battles Demons, folio from a manuscript of the Durgasaptashati (Seven Hundred Couplets in Praise of Durga)

Unknown Artist, c. 1500

Opaque watercolor on paper

15th centuryIndian

Paintings

Mandala of Mount Kōya (Kōyasan mandara)

Unknown Artist, Muromachi period, 16th century

Hanging scroll: ink and colors on hemp(?)

16th centuryJapanese

Prints

Actor Matsumoto Kōshirō IV as Gorōbei, the Fishmonger from San'ya from the Play "Katakiuchi Noriai-Banashi" (Kiri-za)

Tōshūsai Sharaku, Late Edo period, 1794 (5th month)

Woodblock print; ink, color, and mica on paper

18th centuryJapanese

Drawings

Winter Landscape with a Coach and Travelers by a House

Jacob Cats, 1786

Brown ink, gray wash, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper; framing line in brown ink

18th centuryDutch

Photographs

Drawing Room, Bose House, Howrah

Laura McPhee, 2005

21st centuryAmerican

Sculpture

Seated Bodhisattva Târâ in her “Green Manifestation”

Unknown Artist, 15th century, Yongle period

Tibeto-Chinese Style; gilt bronze with an inscription reading "Da Ming Yonglenian shi"

15th centurySino-Tibetan

Paintings

The Sisters

Washington Allston, c. 1816-1817

Oil on canvas

19th centuryAmerican

Architectural Elements

Antefix in the Shape of a Mask of Silenos

Unknown Artist, c. 470-460 BCE

Terracotta with traces of paint

5th century BCEGreek

Prints

The Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns

Sebald Beham, c. 1520

Woodcut on cream antique laid paper mounted on 18th-century (?) blue album sheet

16th centuryGerman

Paintings

Four-circle Hevajra Mandala

Unknown Artist, 15th-16th centuries

Thangka mounted as an album leaf; ink and colors on linen

15th-16th centuryTibetan

Drawings

Fidelia and Speranza

Benjamin West, 1784

Watercolor and brown ink on cream laid paper

18th centuryAmerican

Vessels

Ceremonial Stand with Snake, Abstract, and Openwork Decoration

Unknown Artist, 5th century

Kaya/Chinju-type ware: gray stoneware with combed, stamped, appliqué, and openwork decoration and with traces of natural kiln glaze. Reportedly from Andong, North Kyŏngsang province.

5th centuryKorean

Sculpture

Relief fragment from the tomb of Niankhnesut: Man holding a cow by a rope

Unknown Artist, 2323-2150 BCE

limestone, traces of paint

3rd millennium BCEEgyptian

Prints

The Farnesian Hercules

Hendrick Goltzius, c. 1592 - 1617

Engraving printed in black ink on off-white antique laid paper

16th-17th centuryDutch

Vessels

Kylix (drinking cup): Woman Pouring a Libation at an Altar

The Akestorides Painter, 480-470 BCE

Terracotta

5th century BCEGreek

Sculpture

Head of a Buddhist Figure

Unknown Artist, 4th-5th century

Lime stucco with traces of color, from Hadda, Afghanistan

4th-5th century CEAfghan

Drawings

At the Circus: Jockey (Au cirque: Jockey)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1899

Black and colored chalk, graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryFrench

Prints

Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get Into the Metropolitan Museum?

Guerrilla Girls, 20th century

20th centuryAmerican

Sculpture

Two Standing, Braying Camels, One Buff, One White, Their Backs Laden with Goods

Unknown Artist, 550 - 577

Molded, medium gray earthenware with cold-painted pigments; localized areas with cold-painted pigments over white ground

6th centuryChinese

Ritual Implements

Lamp or Censer with Scenes from the Life of Christ

Unknown Artist, 6th-9th century

Mixed copper alloy

6th-9th centuryByzantine

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